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kaylarose on March 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Skype 5 for Mac

I would venture a guess that one part of FaceTime is actually the streaming protocol it uses - HTTP Live Streaming - which is indeed by Apple and already Open Source, and used by Google, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

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kinetik on March 30, 2011 [–]

HTTP Live Streaming is fairly high latency (2-10 seconds typically), so I very much doubt it's being used for Facetime.

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